Five Things the “Nuclear Bros” Don’t Want You to Know About Small Modular Reactors

Five Things the “Nuclear Bros” Don’t Want You to Know...

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Five Things the “Nuclear Bros” Don’t Want You to Know About Small Modular Reactors

A realistic understanding of their costs and risks is critical.

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My personal stance is that sustainability cannot be achieved within capitalism due to its model of eternal growth. So you can have one or the other, but not both.

So creating more energy could not be the solution. Creating less demand would be, and the demand comes from industries.

More often than not, I it seems to me this discussion about clean energy is a deflection of the real problem which is industrialisation under capitalism. We don't question anymore what this energy is needed for.

Good news then, Microsoft is building a new multibillion dollar AI facility which will ratchet up power demands alongside the increase in power demands for crypto. Oh wait, I said good news. Uhh....
We have excellent incentive to start a Dyson sphere?

No sun to warm us, No global warming.

But in all seriousness some of the breakthroughs in fusion reactors have me excited long term. It's nowhere near ready yet, but we've hit net energy gain, just can't sustain it well.